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Architecting Cloud Native Applications

By : Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, John Gilbert, Piyum Zonooz
Book Image

Architecting Cloud Native Applications

By: Kamal Arora, Erik Farr, John Gilbert, Piyum Zonooz

Overview of this book

Cloud computing has proven to be the most revolutionary IT development since virtualization. Cloud native architectures give you the benefit of more flexibility over legacy systems. This Learning Path teaches you everything you need to know for designing industry-grade cloud applications and efficiently migrating your business to the cloud. It begins by exploring the basic patterns that turn your database inside out to achieve massive scalability. You’ll learn how to develop cloud native architectures using microservices and serverless computing as your design principles. Then, you’ll explore ways to continuously deliver production code by implementing continuous observability in production. In the concluding chapters, you’ll learn about various public cloud architectures ranging from AWS and Azure to the Google Cloud Platform, and understand the future trends and expectations of cloud providers. By the end of this Learning Path, you’ll have learned the techniques to adopt cloud native architectures that meet your business requirements. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: • Cloud Native Development Patterns and Best Practices by John Gilbert • Cloud Native Architectures by Erik Farr et al.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Chapter 5. Control Patterns

In the previous chapter, we continued our discussion of cloud-native patterns with boundary patterns. Boundaries are where the system interacts with everything that is external to the system, including humans and other systems. We leverage a fully managed API gateway to provide secure and scalable synchronous communication. Materialized views are employed to decouple upstream components and make end-user interactions responsive, resilient, and elastic. Offline-first databases enable high availability for an increasingly mobile user base. End users interact with Backend For Frontend components to consume information and perform system functions. While External Service Gateway components provide for bi-directional integration with other systems.

In this chapter, we will conclude our discussion of cloud-native patterns. We will build on the foundation patterns and discuss the patterns that provide the flow of control for collaboration between the boundary components...